Summary
Then there was the leaflet handed out at the celebration by the Minneapolis American Indian Movement. AIMsters dissed the museum for failing to display the "sordid and tragic history of America's holocaust against Native nations" and suggested renaming it the National Holocaust Museum.
It's no secret that Native people have a strained relationship with museums. They're sometimes perceived as a mortuary for our ancestors, and there was some concern about how this particular one would operate. But it seems the mandate here is quite different. Most of the curators are Native and the focus seems to be on today's First Nations, not hundred-year-old totem poles and boxes of bones.At the meet-and-mingle, I heard a Canadian joke told by an American: A seal pup walks into a bar. He looks at the drink menu trying to decide. The bartender gets a little frustrated and says to the seal pup, "Hey, what do you want to drink?" The seal pup puts the drink menu down and says, "Anything but a Canadian Club."See the full content of this document
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Playing Ball with the Washington Indians
Surprisingly, Toronto and Washington, D.C. have much in common. Both have muddy, dirth rivers--ours is the Don and theirs the Potomac. Each has its own large phallic symbol looking down benignly over...
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